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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Bremerhaven, Magistrat Geestemünde and Magistrat Lehe |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Jänecke Druck- und Verlagshaus, Hannover, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is occupied by a panoramic vignette of the combined harbour skyline of Bremerhaven, Lehe and Geestemünde, rendered in a fine linear style against a guilloche underprint in grey-green. The issuing municipalities are named in bold gothic lettering — BREMERHAVEN, GEESTEMÜNDE, and LEHE — above a central ornamental guilloche medallion bearing an official circular seal of the Stadtrat Bremerhaven in red, flanked by two further red circular seals of Magistrat Geestemünde at lower left and Magistrat Lehe at lower right. The denomination numeral '25' and abbreviation 'Pf.' appear in large bold type at centre-bottom, with the validity clause and date 1920 printed in smaller letterpress text across the middle field. |
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| Reverse lettering | № [serial number] 1920 NAVIGARE NECESSE EST VIVERE NON EST NECESSE 25 Pf. 25 |
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Bremerhaven, Geestemünde, and Lehe were three administratively separate municipalities occupying the same narrow strip of the Weser estuary mouth — a situation that produced this unusual joint-issue notgeld, one of relatively few German emergency currency pieces to carry the authority of three distinct local governments on a single note. The political awkwardness was temporary: all three were merged by Prussian decree in 1924 into the unified city of Bremerhaven.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover handled a substantial volume of notgeld work during the 1920–1923 inflation period and brought consistent presswork quality to what was otherwise purely functional small-change paper.